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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.
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Royal Navy Rattler USV SYOS Aerospace Portsmouth

A 24-foot British navy drone boat put a gouge in the stern of a 55-foot racing yacht inside Portsmouth Harbour, and seven of them still run there day and night, driven from a control room on shore under a rule that says keep 650 feet clear where possible

09.14.2026
Inertia Enterprises fusion fuel target capsule Livermore

While the world’s largest laser spends days and sometimes a week freezing a smooth hydrogen layer inside each of its fuel capsules, a US startup grew the layer in two to three hours and it came out smooth enough to pass that laser’s own spec, on a design that fires five times the energy and would not need it to

09.14.2026
Femern A/S immersion pontoon IVY tunnel element load test Rødbyhavn

A 712-foot concrete box took 1,760 tons of water bags on its roof in a Danish harbor so the pontoon holding both its ends could lift it to the height the next box will need, a 128-foot one with a basement under its roadway that has to sit 65 feet down in the Baltic

09.14.2026
méduses Gravelines centrale nucléaire

A 900-megawatt reactor on the French coast came off the grid at four in the afternoon and a second one overnight, both shut by hand before returning jellyfish could pack the seawater screens and trip them, and both were back inside four days against twenty for the last swarm

09.14.2026
PPPL Mirnov coils COMPASS Upgrade tokamak

American-built magnetic sensors have just arrived in Prague for a tokamak designed to hit 5 tesla and 2 million amps, after their shielding took microwave beams at a 2.1-millimeter wavelength inside a German fusion machine, and they beat the 200-ton steel skeleton there

09.14.2026
Kairos Power ETU 2 skids Albuquerque

A test reactor in New Mexico is going together out of more than 30 truck-sized modules that roll in already piped, wired and insulated, dropped onto marks from a laser map so crews only weld the joints between them, and the machine before it was plumbed pipe by pipe

09.14.2026
Savannah River Site shielded container WIPP shipment

A 30-gallon drum too radioactive to handle by hand rode from South Carolina to a salt bed 2,150 feet under New Mexico, the first of its kind out of the plant in over a decade, sealed in an inch of lead with 19 more loaded and 150 being packed behind it

09.13.2026
Oak Ridge Isotope Row Building 3036 demolition

While researchers keep working in the buildings next door, crews on a Tennessee campus are knocking down ten contaminated isotope labs one at a time in the late afternoon, after six years spent stripping out hot cells and four 2,000-pound krypton tanks, and all ten free up 12,000 square feet

09.13.2026
ITER vacuum vessel thermal shield panels polished

A three-quarter-inch heat shield is back in the assembly hall at the fusion reactor in southern France with 2,205 pounds of its silver ground off and 6.8 miles of its cooling pipe cut away, after chlorine trapped under the plating split the pipes at the welds

09.13.2026
Hydro Tasmania Tungatinah Power Station fire

A 142-megawatt hydroelectric plant that made 5 percent of Tasmania’s power burned to its steel frame overnight, investigators have traced the fire to the workshop floor at one end of the turbine hall, and nobody knows yet whether the five turbines survived

09.13.2026
NextEra Duane Arnold Energy Center Palo Iowa

A 615-megawatt reactor lost its cooling towers, its transformer and its power lines to a teardown crew, so rebuilding all three to get it on the grid by early 2029 takes up to $1.9 billion in federal money, the biggest check any American restart has drawn

09.13.2026
Waratah Super Battery Munmorah Akaysha

An 850-megawatt battery pushed 700 megawatts into the grid for two straight hours on Friday and then pulled almost 850 back out of it, its second full-power test in three days, nearly eleven months after a transformer failure cut its grid contract in half

09.13.2026
Greenskies New Haven Middletown Avenue landfill solar array

A Connecticut city stood 1,920 solar panels on a sealed garbage hill where no steel post can go in, because a driven pile would punch through the lid keeping decades of trash away from the water, so concrete blocks hold every rack down, and the dump now pays city hall $6,000 a month

09.12.2026
Marathon Fusion plasma centrifuge

A 1-gigawatt fusion plant would burn 123 pounds of tritium a year and push 1,235 pounds around its loop to do it, so an American startup is spinning the exhaust in a column of plasma that throws the heavy isotopes to the wall and lets the helium ash go, and the machine has never seen real tritium

09.12.2026
DC Water Mary tunnel boring machine Potomac

A 706-foot boring machine cut north under the Potomac all summer with most of its body still parked in the daylight, while a crane fed the rest down a 100-foot shaft 30 tons at a time, and with the last car bolted on it has 350 feet to go before it stops for two months

09.12.2026
NOAA ROV Deep Discoverer quadrat polymetallic nodules

A 9,700-pound drone with 28 lights on it set a 10-inch square down on the seafloor 16,863 feet off American Samoa, scooped out the metal lumps growing inside that square, and bottled the water just above them to test whether a radioactive gas can find more

09.12.2026
Fortum Loviisa power plant turbine hall outage

A 1,014-megawatt nuclear plant on the Finnish coast is pulling the casings and internals out of all eight of its low-pressure turbines during an outage that keeps one reactor running, and the rebuild adds 38 megawatts while the reactors make exactly the same heat

09.12.2026
NGK NAS battery container Lava Blue PRiSM Brisbane

A 20-foot container outside Brisbane holds liquid sodium and liquid sulfur at up to 645 degrees, keeps itself that hot on under three kilowatts and stores 1,450 kilowatt-hours, and the only company that still builds them has voted to stop, with the last one shipping next January

09.12.2026
MBARI ROV Doc Ricketts EyeRIS

A 12-foot underwater robot came up from the seafloor with six camera lights washing out the plankton its crew wanted to film, so they pulled those light arms off overnight, joined them into one long boom with two shrouded lamps on the tip and dove it again the next day

09.11.2026
pacwave south project

An Oregon wave-power site opened seven miles off the coast with nearly 50 miles of cable buried under the seafloor and four berths rated at 5 megawatts each, not one machine is in the water, and the first one likely to go in would use one percent of what the cables can carry

09.11.2026
UKAEA MAST Upgrade tokamak plasma

A British fusion machine ran more than 1,100 plasmas at 54 million degrees, held the edge steady four separate ways so it stopped throwing the bursts that chew up the walls, and learned to find the plasma by reading the glow from the exhausts above and below it

09.11.2026
Sogin Garigliano centrale sfera smantellamento vessel

An Italian reactor is being cut apart from above through 10 feet of water with a clamp on a pole and underwater cameras for eyes, the first 2,200 pounds of metal are already out, and the 157-foot steel ball around it is listed heritage that stays standing when the reactor is gone

09.11.2026
Hanford K East Reactor cocoon enclosure

A 120-foot steel building stands over a sealed plutonium reactor in Washington state with open air between the two, put up for under $10 million to stay shut for up to 75 years, and the crew that checked the reactor’s roof flew a drone into that gap so nobody stood next to the core

09.11.2026
Bradfield City First Building biosolar roof Elmich 319 solar panels

A Sydney factory roof grew 14,000 native plants under its 319 solar panels and they made 11 percent more electricity over the summer than a bare array, because the leaves cool the air under the glass, and on the hottest days the roof ran 50 degrees cooler than bare aluminum

09.11.2026
Kairos Power ETU 3 reactor cavity mockup

A 12-panel concrete wall just went up around a reactor vessel in Tennessee, cut in four designs with stepped and wavy seams so radiation can’t run straight out through the gaps, and robot arms overhead now connect the pipes with no one setting foot inside

09.10.2026
REDEN Upaix serre agrivoltaïque kiwis jaunes

A French grower put 4,725 solar panels over 3.7 acres of yellow kiwifruit vines 2,400 feet up in the Alps, because the bacterium that kills a yellow vine within two seasons rides in on rain and gets in through hail wounds, and the roof that stops the rain traps the moisture it feeds on

09.10.2026
FortisBC Eagle Mountain Woodfibre tunnel

Two boring machines have cut 5.5 miles toward each other under a British Columbia mountain, one pressing disc cutters into granite and the other pumping clay and water in ahead of itself to hold up an estuary, and the tunnel they leave behind gets flooded on purpose

09.10.2026
Davis-Besse steam generator replacement

Two heat exchangers 74 feet tall and 470 tons each had to go into an Ohio reactor building with no door big enough for them, so crews cut a hole through the shield building and the steel containment, slid the old pair out and the new pair in, and welded the wall shut behind them

09.10.2026
Ringhals pressurizer repair

A 42-foot nuclear pressure tank weighing 93 tons opens through a single 16-inch hatch, so when 30 heaters melted inside it and dripped copper onto the floor, the Swedish crew built a full-size copy to practice on, dropped tools down 39 feet on poles and sent a robot in to vacuum

09.10.2026
Alcatraz solar panels

While the White House has asked Congress for $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as a prison, 959 solar panels sit on the cellhouse roof tilted five degrees so they stay below the parapet, and the island that once took 2,000 gallons of diesel a week by boat now ships about 75 percent less

09.10.2026
Olkiluoto turbine hall

A generator rotor spinning 3,000 times a minute inside a Finnish reactor failed, got replaced with the last spare in the building, and that one failed again seven months later, so the unit has run at 735 megawatts instead of 890 ever since, and the redesigned one is not due until late 2027

09.09.2026
Rutgers agrivoltaics cattle solar

New Jersey stood 378 solar panels dead upright in a cattle pasture, edge-on to the sun, because an upright panel gives you two production humps instead of one noon spike, and six cows are now grazing between the rows with a camera on them every five minutes

09.09.2026
Palo Verde Generating Station cooling towers

A 36-mile concrete pipe feeds three desert reactors 72,000 acre-feet of treated city sewage a year, 95 percent of which goes up the cooling towers as vapor, and the contract behind that water runs out in 2050, 17 years before the owner has asked to keep the reactors running

09.09.2026
Dresden Generating Station Illinois

An Illinois reactor that regulators just cleared to run until 2049 was shut off by hand at 4:31 in the morning because an instrument said its control rods were moving when they weren’t, half its protection system fired on its own, and it was still at zero five days later

09.09.2026
Xudabao CAP1000 dome hoist

While the only new reactors finished in the United States in three decades are AP1000s, the Chinese copy of that design got its 1,100-ton steel dome craned on 33 months after the construction license, with everything underneath it still to install

09.09.2026
Seasats Quickfish drone

A 17-foot aluminum drone boat that weighs 1,450 pounds empty and 1,900 with everything aboard ran two straight weeks of a Navy electronic-warfare exercise in Michigan with its aerial drones sealed inside the hull, and one operator is trained to run it in three days

09.08.2026
agrivoltaic greenhouse tomatoes panels

A 10-foot-high field of solar panels covering 2.2 acres let a Massachusetts farmer pull sweet corn at about 80 percent of his open rows, at the same quality, while 832 modules on 28 tracker motors made 445 kilowatts over the same dirt

09.08.2026
Holcim Obourg floating solar

Switzerland floated 1,400 solar panels on an Alpine reservoir at 5,940 feet, chained to weights on the bottom, because the lake belongs to a hydro plant that drains it every year, and for six months of every year the panels come down and sit on a gravel pad somebody dredged out of the lake to catch them

09.08.2026
DOE Legacy Management site inspection

A 240-megawatt reactor cooled by liquid sodium ran for 15 months beside a Nebraska coal plant and has sat under a 1.4-acre grass mound since 1969 with 300,000 curies inside, its drawings sealed in two stainless steel boxes, and the government still mows and waters the grass

09.08.2026
westinghouse evinci microreactor

While a run of American microreactors went critical in Idaho this summer, a one-fifth-scale core built to cool itself with sealed tubes and no water did it in Nevada at 10:39 in the morning, made no usable heat, and ran inside the bunker built to assemble nuclear test devices

09.08.2026
Glencore mine Epiroc battery Scooptram underground

Glencore sank a shaft 8,530 feet under Ontario from the bottom of a mine it closed in 2009, and put five lithium-ion locomotives and 23 battery machines down there so it would not have to pump cooled air a mile and a half to keep the crews working

09.08.2026
Sandia THERMS thermal storage

An eight-foot livestock trough upside down over a six-foot one, with 18 inches of landscaping gravel packed between them, holds 100 kilowatt-hours of heat at 1,022 degrees. It has cycled more than 200 days in New Mexico and roasted a dark batch of coffee faster than gas did

09.07.2026
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor core

A californium wire under a tenth of an inch thick, rolled out on a jeweler’s mill, is what wakes up a new American reactor, and a microgram of it throws 2.3 million neutrons a second. One lab makes all of it, and one swapped molecule just halved the cleanup

09.07.2026
Forschungszentrum Jülich solar panels

While solar panels ate 186.6 million ounces of silver last year, a lab wired cells together with a nickel tape thinner than a hair, stuck on cold with no solder, and after 200 cycles down to minus 40 the test module was under 1 percent down. The tape barely holds on

09.07.2026
242-A Evaporator Hanford

Water boils at 202 degrees in Denver because there is a mile less air pressing on the pot, and a concrete building in eastern Washington takes that much further, boiling radioactive tank waste at 125. One run freed up 353,000 gallons of room underground

09.07.2026
Equinox Ocean Turbines Mobula tidal turbine

A 164-foot concrete rotor turning in the tide makes no electricity at all. A federal lab opened its hub and found a bearing and nothing else, because the only two generators on the whole thing are bolted to the blade tips, where the water arrives fast

09.07.2026
Hot Fuel Examination Facility INL

A 70-foot room in Idaho full of argon, behind four feet of concrete, is where America cuts open used fuel rods, the cuts get marked with a Sharpie wrapped in tape, a plumber’s pipe cutter does the rough work, and it just got a plaque for a career that is not over

09.06.2026
TaunaBad Oberursel Photovoltaik

Germany stood 64 solar panels upright along the fence of a public pool, facing the parking lot instead of the sky, because the back of each panel drinks the light bouncing off the cars, and they give up the middle of the day to take the early morning and late afternoon while 180 more roof three pergolas by the kids’ pool

09.06.2026
Sandia National Solar Thermal Test Facility heliostat field

An 18-inch ceramic disc printed from silicon carbide sat on a tower ringed by 218 mirrors in the New Mexico desert, and the mirrors took two days to line up on it. Its face hit 2,534 degrees, the air coming out the back left at 1,562, and the program had paid for 2,012

09.06.2026
hanford sy-101 pump removal

While a 4.6-ton robot arm goes in through a 22-inch hole at Fukushima for a few grams, crews at Hanford just lifted a 50-foot, 10-ton pump out of a radioactive waste tank, drilled holes in it on the way up to drain the liquid inside, and did in one day what they rehearsed for two years

09.06.2026
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